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Praat

Praat is a toolkit for annotating, processing and analysing speech and other audio samples. It is widely used in phonetics and speech research for tasks such as labelling recordings, measuring pitch, formants and intensity, and manipulating and synthesising speech.

Available

  • Puhti: 6.4
  • Roihu: 6.4

License

Praat is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

Usage

Initialize Praat with:

module load praat

Praat is primarily a graphical application; the best way to run it remotely is through the Puhti web interface remote desktop. It can also be run without a graphical interface for scripted batch processing:

praat --run script.praat

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